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Trichosurus vulpecula

Trichosurus vulpecula

Australian Brushtail Possum(+42)·(Kerr, 1792)

GBIF:299448953

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Common names used for this species across different languages and regions. Available in 23 languages.

engAustralian Brushtail PossumengengBrushtail PossumengengCommon Brush-tailed PossumengengCommon BrushtailengengCommon Brushtail Possumeng+38 more

Vernacular (common) names are the everyday names used for a species in different languages and regions. A single species may have dozens of common names worldwide. This taxon has names in 23 languages.

engAustralian Brushtail Possum
eng
engBrushtail Possum
eng
engCommon Brush-tailed Possum
eng
engCommon Brushtail
eng
engCommon Brushtail Possum
eng
spaCuscús de Cola de Cepillo
spa
porCusu-comum
por
deuFuchskusu
deu
deuGewöhnlicher Fuchskusu
deu
finKettukusu
fin
nobKusu
nob
Paihama
mri
Paihamu
mri
polPałanka kuzu
pol
fraPhalanger Blanchâtre
fra
fraPhalanger Renard
fra
fraPhalanger vulpin
fra
engPossum
eng
spaPosúm de cola de escoba
spa
nobPungrev
nob
danPungræv
dan
spaPósum de cola de cepillo
spa
engSilver-gray Brushtail Possum
eng
engSilver-grey Possum
eng
engSilvergrey Possum
eng
engTree Bear
eng
itaTricosuro volpino
ita
nldVoskoesoe
nld
afrWolstertpossum
afr
burumin
polkitanka lisia
pol
ceskusu liščí
ces
hunközönséges rókakuzu
hun
swepungräv
swe
swerävkusu
swe
ellΔενδροπόσουμ
ell
ukrКузу лисячий
ukr
rusЛисий кузу
rus
hebפוסום אוסטרלי כסוף-אפור
heb
thaคอมมอนบรัชเทลพอสซั่ม
tha
thaพอสซัมบรัชเทลธรรมดา
tha
jpnフクロギツネ
jpn
zho帚尾袋貂
zho

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The Catalogue of Life is building a comprehensive catalogue of all known species on Earth. It offers two types of releases that reflect different levels of quality. The Base Release is curated and verified by experts specifically for COL. The eXtended Release (COL XR) builds on the Base Release 2026-05-11 (COL26.5) by programmatically integrating additional data sources. It integrates information from 61504 overlapping taxonomic and nomenclatural global, regional, national and management data sources (checklists) as well as originating from digitised literature available in Catalogue of Life's infrastructure ChecklistBank. New names and other data included in the COL XR are indicated with the XR icon. This release addresses several gaps of the Base Release and also enriches the existing names with information such as authorships, references, and vernacular names. It also adds molecular data, such as barcode index numbers or operational taxonomic units, to the Catalogue of Life. Higher taxonomy is being added only in selected groups with important gaps. Meanwhile, the information from the global data sources of the Catalogue of Life Base Release remains unmodified. This enhanced process is continuously evolving and undergoing quality control checks by COL editors and its community. Due to its programmatic nature as well as the taxonomic and nomenclatural differences among the data sources used, some issues may arise. We therefore caution the user, and invite everyone to help log data issues in the [COL’s data GitHub repository](https://github.com/CatalogueOfLife/data/issues/new?template=xcol-content-feedback.md). We will do our best to resolve these issues as soon as possible.

Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Abreu, C., Acero P, A., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (2026-05-15 XR). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgxsq

CC BYPublished 5/15/2026View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
299448953
Dataset Key
7ddf754f-d193-4cc9-b351-99906754a03b
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2440254
Taxon ID
7D574
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026